Do You Take Folic Acid?

Many of our people usually neglect their drugs given at the hospitals or prescribed by the doctors,not only when they are pregnant but when they are sick and feel that they are getting better.

Some pregnant women,especially those who have had babies before,usually believe that they already know everything and so some things they are told at the antenatal clinics don’t make much meaning again.One of such is the faithful taking of the tiny yellow tablet called folic acid.

It is recommended that any woman of childbearing age should be taking folic acid.

Why is it important to take folic acid during pregnancy? I’m writing to get you informed and I’d like you to tell others and also share this information on your wall.

1. Taking folic acid helps to prevent malformations which research has named to include cleft lip and palate and heart defects.

2.Prevents incomplete development of major parts of the brain known as anecephaly.

3.It prevents neural tube defectswhich are very serious when they happen.Example is Spina Bifida,and most of these happen in the first trimester(12 weeks),most times even before a woman knows that she is pregnant ,hence the need to start taking folic acid before you get pregnant.